The Downtown Brain Center of the Photo Processing Operation.
Any photo processing expert and a recent commercial will tell you that it’s not a picture until it’s printed. Here at Roberts Imaging we have our fair share of photo processing experts. We have a full service photo-lab. Let me repeat, we have a full service photo-lab at both locations of Roberts Imaging. Sure you can stumble into any number of grocery store/one stop convenience/drug stores/hyper-retailer and find a freestanding ‘kiosk’ card reader with a “photo-center”, but they won’t have a full service photo-lab.
At both Roberts Imaging locations we have a professional staff, with dedicated lab employees who just make images from your film or digital files, not one of them also works in the garden center, or stocking greeting cards. If you have a non-digital SLR camera and you are shooting film our downtown store can process C-41 negatives or E-6 slides within 24 hours. Our Carmel location can do the C-41 film in house and can turn over slides within 4 or 5 days depending on when you drop it off (the slides come downtown and are returned via our own company vehicle).

Randy “The Gnome” Cox, our downtown lab manager has a collection of antique cameras, and has been working in the photo-processing arena since the days of George Eastman. In fact if you ask nicely he might even show you his flash powder burns from his days following with Matthew Brady. Nobody knows how old the Gnome is except the Gnome, The Gnome knows. So why would you trust your timeless memories and images to anyone but the timeless one himself.  O.K., I have to admit, Ivan, Jeff and Scott are pretty good too, and John Cornwell’s lab staff in Carmel are also more than competent.
Whether you still shoot film or are (like) totally digital, whether you use available light, on camera flash or use professional studio lighting you will get your best printed results from a true photo-lab with imaging professionals.  We also have two ‘kiosk’ style self serve machines downtown and one in our satellite Carmel store where you can still select some editing and crop features as wells as quantities; the difference here is that our lab techs go through each image for color and contrast accuracy at the printing stage after your requests are sent to the lab. You should see Randy hitting the color, brightness and contrast buttons on the printer console, his fingers fly like an virtuoso on a favorite piece of music. Of course the ‘kiosk’ machines take all types of memory cards, the popular SD memory cards and compact flash cards from all makers including Kingston,  Sandisk Cards and Lexar Cards as well as the proprietary Sony Digital camera Memory Stick and Memory Stick Duo, and the xD cards from Fuji and Olympus Digital cameras as well. Even Mini and Micro SD’s, if you have SD card adapter. These machines will also read your files from a CD and our lab experts can print from flash drives and DVD files as well if you can give them the file names (you cannot preview them here). If you can’t make the trip to downtown or Carmel because the excellent pricing on our cameras is too tempting you can even sign up on-line and FTP your images over the ether, and we will package and ship them back when finished via UPS Priority mail. Be sure to take advantage of our on-line specials, and save even more. A good picture is worth a thousand words, a bad one may only elicit the four letter variety!